{"id":1172,"date":"2016-06-20T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/?page_id=1172"},"modified":"2016-07-05T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:48:33","slug":"ubzurich-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/ubzurich\/ubzurich-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-color:#eaeaea;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:40px;padding-top:40px;padding-left:40px;padding-right:40px;background-color:#ffffff;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\n                            padding-left: 40px !important;\n                            padding-right: 40px !important;\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"intro-txt\">\n<p>UBZurich Chair main objective is to promote education, research and technology transfer in the fields of actuarial science and finance, and in particular in the field of risk management.<\/p>\n<p>The Chair is organized in three areas of development with functions specifically assigned to each of them:<\/p>\n<p>1.- Education and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).<br \/>\n2.- Research.<br \/>\n3.- Transfer of Technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro-txt\">\n<p>OBJECTIVES IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION AND CPD<\/p>\n<p><b>To promote the knowledge and high level education for experts in the field of Actuarial Sciences and Finance<\/b>, in order to build career paths for professional actuaries and risk managers, to the acquisition of technical skills and to deliver professional development to fill critical gaps in technical knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><b>To collaborate in maintaining continuing education (CE) compliance in insurance companies<\/b>. To develop custom courses or seminars that meet specific professional development needs in the field of interest of the Chair: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.il3.ub.edu\/es\/Home.html\"> UB-IL3 Institute of Lifelong Learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>To design business games<\/b> in the context of Actuarial Science and Risk Management.<\/p>\n<p><b>To organise conferences and seminars<\/b> in the field of the Actuarial Science and Risk Management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro-txt\">\n<p>OBJECTIVES IN THE AREA OF RESEARCH<\/p>\n<p>To promote Working Papers addressing topics related to the UBZurich Chair interests<\/p>\n<p>To organize the <b>UBZurich Chair Annual Guest Lecture<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>To co-organization of the Summer School in collaboration with <b>UBriskcenter<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>To design a visiting professors program in order to attract talent and to invite top academics.<\/p>\n<p>To promote <b>UBZurich Chair<\/b> Research Grants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro-txt\">\n<p>OBJECTIVES IN THE AREA OF TOT &#8211; Transfer Of Technology<\/p>\n<p><b>To offer assessment to insurance companies in innovation and development<\/b> (technical and scientific knowledge transfer), as well as information on research project calls for public-private joint interests.<\/p>\n<p>To develop <b>UBZurich Chair seminars<\/b> for technological dissemination in the insurance sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172\/revisions\/1359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/riskcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}